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Robert was born Jan Hoch in a town in Czechoslovakia which is now in Ukraine.
What is the significance of this to the current verdict?
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Not a lot. It's just a factoid which caught my eye. The town is in Carpathian Ruthenia, which changed hands many times. It was in Hungary for most of the war. The Nazis rounded up the Jews, including most of Robert Maxwell's family, who were killed in Auschwitz. Ghislaine is sometimes presented as a member of the English upper class, but I wonder whether she sees herself more as a persecuted minority, struggling to survive. After her father's death she was rescued by Epstein. Was she another of his victims? Would she ever have preyed on young girls if she hadn't needed to pay her debt to him?
nick_h.
Maybe Mossad will bust her out? Robert, her Dad, probably spied for them. Six heads of Mossad went to his funeral. He was widely believed to have shopped Vanunu to them. (Vanunu worked on Israel's nuclear weapons programme but leaked it to the press. The Israelis kidnapped him in Italy and jailed him for 18 years.)
Robert was born Jan Hoch in a town in Czechoslovakia which is now in Ukraine.